Kultaharkkoja meren pohjaan

[Nasse-setä]

1. Toukokuuta 1942 rahtilaivoja saatamassa ollut risteilijä Edinbugh uppoaa taistelun seurauksena. Laivassa oli 431kpl kultaharkkoja, joilla Neuvostoliitto halusi maksaa Isolle-Britanialle ja Yhdysvalloille sotatoimituksia.

[Lepanovski]

No, poijjaathan on ton takia tehny märkäpuku hankintoja
(reenailevat uimarannoilla),
taitavat tietää oikeen sijainninkin

[Hannu Hanhi]

1. Toukokuuta 1942 rahtilaivoja saatamassa ollut risteilijä Edinbugh uppoaa taistelun seurauksena. Laivassa oli 431kpl kultaharkkoja, joilla Neuvostoliitto halusi maksaa Isolle-Britanialle ja Yhdysvalloille sotatoimituksia.

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The cargo of gold

At the time of Edinburgh's sinking she was carrying a 4.5-long-ton (4,570 kg) consignment of gold bullion, which formed part of Stalin's payment for the supplies that the Allies were shipping to the USSR. The 465 gold ingots, carried in ninety-three wooden boxes, were being transported in the armoured bomb-rooms situated on the starboard side of the vessel, not far from the original torpedo's impact point. At the time, the estimated worth of the bullion was somewhere in the region of £1,547,080 sterling.
In 1954, the British Government offered the salvage rights to the Edinburgh to Risdon Beazley Ltd., a salvage company operating out of the UK, but the project was put on hold, due to strained political relations between the West and the Soviet Union. In 1957, the wreck was designated as a war grave, which complicated any salvage attempts still further.
In the late 1970s, interest in the Edinburgh was reawakened, and the British Government was becoming increasingly anxious to recover the gold. This was not only because it would provide further valuable revenue for the Exchequer, but because there was also a growing fear of the wreck being pirated by unscrupulous salvagers, or, worse, salvaged by the Soviet Union, in whose waters it lay.
In the early 1980s, a company called Jessop Marine, run by seasoned diver Keith Jessop, won the contract for the salvage rights to the wreck of the Edinburgh. Jessop won the contract because his methods, involving complex cutting machinery and divers, were deemed more appropriate for a war grave, compared to the explosives-oriented methods of other companies.
In April 1981, the survey ship Dammtor began searching for the wreck in the Barents Sea, on behalf of Jessop Marine. After only ten days, they discovered the ship's final resting place at an approximate position of 72°N 35°E, at a depth of 245 metres (800 ft). Using specialist camera equipment, the Dammtor took detailed film of the wreck, which allowed Jessop and his divers to carefully plan the salvage operation.
Later that year, on 30 August, the dive-support vessel Stephaniturm journeyed to the site, and salvage operations began in earnest. Several divers were injured during the operation, but on 15 September 1981, a diver finally penetrated the bomb room and recovered a bar of gold. On 7 October, bad weather finally forced the suspension of diving operations, but by that time, 431 of 465 ingots had been recovered, now worth in excess of £43,000,000 sterling. A further 29 bars were recovered in a subsequent operation in 1986, bringing the total to 460, leaving five unaccounted for.

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[patti]

No, poijjaathan on ton takia tehny märkäpuku hankintoja
(reenailevat uimarannoilla),
taitavat tietää oikeen sijainninkin

Hys...

[Öhkömönkijä]

Saattaas verenalaaspiippari vinkaasta iloosesti kun alla olis muutama tonni kultaa. Tosin Patin kanssa tultiin tulokseen, että turhaan sitä piipparia hylyn lähistöllä tarvitaan, jos tietää kullan paikan muutenkin...

[ärkoo]

Olen nähnyt muinoin tunnin pätkän robottikameralla kuvattua filmiä Edinburghin tyhjennyksestä. Oli mielenkiintoista katsottavaa.